¹³ Then they cried to LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. ¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds apart. ¹⁵ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

Phrases

Out of Darkness

Shadow of Death

Cross References

Psalm 116:16

O LORD, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou have loosed my bonds.

Psalm 107:10

[even] those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.

Job 10:21-22

before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

Job 15:22

He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

Job 15:30

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Job 33:30

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,

Job 42:10-12

And LORD turned [back] the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Psalm 68:6

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners into prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Psalm 102:20

to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death,

Psalm 105:19-20

Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of LORD tried him.

Psalm 146:7

who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. LORD releases the prisoners.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 49:9

saying to those who are bound, Go forth to those who are in darkness. Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare heights.

Isaiah 60:1-3

Arise, shine, for thy light has come, and the glory of LORD has risen upon thee.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and

Jeremiah 52:31-34

And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted u

Zechariah 9:11-12

As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Luke 13:16

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound, lo, eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?

Acts 5:19

But an agent of Lord opened the prison doors by night, and after leading them out, he said,

Acts 5:25

But a certain man who arrived, reported to them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

Acts 12:7-10

And behold, an agent of Lord stood near, and light shone in the room. And after striking the side of Peter, he raised him up, saying, Get up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

Acts 16:26-40

And suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so as for the foundations of the prison to shake. And immediately all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all the men were unfastened.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but now light in Lord. Walk as children of light

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.